Leaving the desert

"I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with a non-human world and yet somehow survives still intact, individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock."

--Ed Abbey, Desert Solitaire

p.s. There was supposed to be a picture in this post. But I don't have my pictures, for reasons that I'll subsume into a general exhortation for the reader to, if not doing so already, boycott Wal-Mart.